Hard Frost

A young boy is found dead in a rubish sack, suffocated and with one finger cut off. another boy, Bobby Kirby, is missing. A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A fifteen-year-old has been abducted, then found naked by the roadside. The corpse of a petty criminal is discovered, with the tops of three fingers chopped off. The small children of a carpet-fitter are murdered; his wife body is found on the railway line. A supermarket MD is sent ransom demand for the missing boy Bobby, accompanied by one of the child's fingers. -- back cover ‘Fast-paced and wryly amusing... A delight from start to finish’ – Val McDermidDetective Inspector Jack Frost is having a hard time.A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated and with one finger cut off.